The First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC is an incomplete 101-page document written by John von Neumann and distributed on June 30, 1945 by Herman Goldstine, security officer on the classified ENIAC p
Title page the First Draft, copy belonging to Samuel N. Alexander, who developed the SEAC computer based on the report.
Maurice Wilkes
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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, one of the earliest stored-program computers, and who inve
Maurice Wilkes in 1980
Maurice Wilkes (right) with the Meccano differential analyser in the Cambridge University Mathematics Laboratory, c. 1937. A. F. Devonshire (left) co-authored a number of papers on melting and disorder with the Laboratory's first director, John Lennard-Jones. The winner of the 1937 Mayhew Prize, J. Corner, is operating the input table (centre).
Maurice Wilkes inspecting the mercury delay line of the EDSAC in construction